tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post8086496720225708027..comments2024-03-29T07:36:51.933-05:00Comments on driftglass: Sunday Morning Comin' Downdriftglasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09379167083253389153noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-24656597386402466602015-11-23T18:50:05.907-06:002015-11-23T18:50:05.907-06:00I don't watch or listen (to re-broadcasts) of ...I don't watch or listen (to re-broadcasts) of the Sunday shows but yesterday I was stuck on a road trip with either listening to a tiresome repeat of Garrison Keilor or CSPAN's rebroadcast of the Toddler.Show. Having never listened to the show before, I thought Helene actually asked a pertinent question, which you cited and the Toddler never got close to asking (he sees himself as a softball tosser, clearly). Anyway, I had never heard Ron Fournier before and I started laughing out loud as he went on his "leadership" shit. It was hilarious and pathetic at the same time.Jimbohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13891331049535299222noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-11772645420200155702015-11-23T18:32:15.338-06:002015-11-23T18:32:15.338-06:00Man, Ron "Severe Dementia" Fournier keep...Man, Ron "Severe Dementia" Fournier keeps schtupping that chicken, doesn't he? At some point his head will just explode as he delivers one of those heaps of putrid "both sides" bullshit, right? I mean, he can't keep being ignorant of (deliberately or not) the actual reasons why we have Trump stomping over the charred remnants of the unspoken rules of our polity, can he? Who am I kidding, of course he can.<br /><br />And of course, as anyone who has tried to engage with him in an actual reasoned back-and-forth on the Twitters can attest, his is perhaps the most "ghettoized" mind of all. Anyone who suggests to him that the insufferable, mendacious sanctimony wrapped in "objective" centrism he shovels out is ever wrong or mistaken is immediately labeled an irredeemable partisan moron for which he has no time. Phony centrism is his professed religion, but only to the extent that it pleases his actual masters, the moneyed GOP elite.<br /><br />He is just the worst fucking guy. Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15368238520998130967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-18626848377028273612015-11-23T15:30:57.069-06:002015-11-23T15:30:57.069-06:00Well, Ron, I actually do listen to people who do n...Well, Ron, I actually do listen to people who do not agree with me, and it makes me sick every time.Davishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08469262537314894217noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-16945710169928494472015-11-23T03:46:41.151-06:002015-11-23T03:46:41.151-06:00at just this moment it had been announced that Oce...at just this moment it had been announced that Oceania was not after all at war with Eurasia. Oceania was at war with Eastasia. Eurasia was an ally.<br /><br />There was, of course, no admission that any change had taken place. Merely it became known, with extreme suddenness and everywhere at once, that Eastasia and not Eurasia was the enemy. Winston was taking part in a demonstration in one of the central London squares at the moment when it happened. ... On a scarlet-draped platform an orator of the Inner Party, a small lean man with disproportionately long arms and a large bald skull over which a few lank locks straggled, was haranguing the crowd. A little Rumpelstiltskin figure, contorted with hatred, he gripped the neck of the microphone with one hand while the other, enormous at the end of a bony arm, clawed the air menacingly above his head. His voice, made metallic by the amplifiers, boomed forth an endless catalogue of atrocities, massacres, deportations, lootings, rapings, torture of prisoners, bombing of civilians, lying propaganda, unjust aggressions, broken treaties. It was almost impossible to listen to him without being first convinced and then maddened. At every few moments the fury of the crowd boiled over and the voice of the speaker was drowned by a wild beast-like roaring that rose uncontrollably from thousands of throats. The most savage yells of all came from the schoolchildren. The speech had been proceeding for perhaps twenty minutes when a messenger hurried on to the platform and a scrap of paper was slipped into the speaker’s hand. He unrolled and read it without pausing in his speech. Nothing altered in his voice or manner, or in the content of what he was saying, but suddenly the names were different. Without words said, a wave of understanding rippled through the crowd. Oceania was at war with Eastasia! The next moment there was a tremendous commotion. The banners and posters with which the square was decorated were all wrong! Quite half of them had the wrong faces on them. It was sabotage! The agents of Sanders had been at work! There was a riotous interlude while posters were ripped from the walls, banners torn to shreds and trampled underfoot. The Spies performed prodigies of activity in clambering over the rooftops and cutting the streamers that fluttered from the chimneys. But within two or three minutes it was all over. The orator, still gripping the neck of the microphone, his shoulders hunched forward, his free hand clawing at the air, had gone straight on with his speech. One minute more, and the feral roars of rage were again bursting from the crowd. The Hate continued exactly as before, except that the target had been changed.waldohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12395953495678994254noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-27990666481030340222015-11-23T03:10:25.369-06:002015-11-23T03:10:25.369-06:00@bowtiejack
Do you remember the classic Mitchell ...@bowtiejack<br /><br />Do you remember the classic Mitchell Trio tune "I Was Not a Nazi Polka"?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08141640791663745884noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-39031907325790123332015-11-22T22:33:06.036-06:002015-11-22T22:33:06.036-06:00The sort of interesting thing is after the Nazi pr...The sort of interesting thing is after the Nazi project failed, it turned out (I mean after they got rid of their uniforms and stuff) that nobody had been a Nazi!<br />Will our courageous media will be as fast on their feet? Inquiring minds await with baited breath.bowtiejackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03269786110593961195noreply@blogger.com